Executive Interviews

Partnership Model, Open Innovation Leading PARC into New Era of AI, Bridging Research, Business Value Dr. Tolga Kurtoglu is CEO of PARC, a Xerox company, which is in "the business of breakthroughs.” Practicing open innovation since being...

Incorporating AI, Innovation To Meet Business Objectives, With Help from Amazon AWS Kesha Williams is a software engineering manager in the Information Technology department at Chick-fil-A, the restaurant chain, with responsibility to lead and mentor...

R&D Mission Spawned Siri, Now Pursuing AI Innovations to Address Challenges from an Aging Population to Picking Apples   Dr. William Mark is president of SRI International’s Information and Computing Sciences Division, which conducts leading-edge research...

Industrial Internet Consortium Members “Invent the Future” by Anticipating Disruptions from AI, Pursue Standard Testbeds to Accelerate Adoption Dr. Richard Soley is Chairman and CEO of the Object Management Group (OMG) and Executive Director of the Industrial...

Blackstraw.ai Seeks to Fast-Track AI Adoption with Smart Building Blocks AI Trends recently caught up with Atul Arya, CEO and Founder of Blackstraw. The veteran machine learning leader most recently at Nielsen is transforming the AI...

Paul Blase is a co-founder of Speciate AI, a spin-out from tronc, a newspaper and online media company based in Chicago. Blase was formerly the managing partner of tronc’s AI and data solutions division...

“The question that everyone needs to ask themselves is, while we are building new innovative approaches with AI, how could we also think about bringing value to society?” - Amir Banifatemi Amir Banifatemi is the...

Eliot Weinman, AI Trends Executive Editor and John Desmond, AI Trends Editor, recently had an opportunity to interview Martin Mrugal. As chief innovation officer at SAP North America, Marty Mrugal is responsible for SAP’s...

Anju Gupta leads the Global IT Strategic Collaborations at Monsanto, where she works to establish industry partnerships. She has a Ph.D in Quantitative Genetics for Ohio State U. and has a number of patents....

David Ledbetter is a Senior Data Scientist at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (CHLA PICU). He is an expert on decision theory, with particular emphasis on accurately predicting performance on new...